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...movie Gandhi had the effect of a well-told love story: it left a pleasant feeling inside, and it offered a simple, timeless optimism, the kind we've been told to abandon by our more worldly peers, Gandhi silenced the cynics. Or so it seemed...
...billion), but judging by the Academy Award nominations announced last week, it was a vintage year for pictures and performances as well. By and large, the nominated were both predictable and respectable. Three Best Picture nominees dominated the Academy's voting: Sir Richard Attenborough's epic Gandhi with eleven nominations; Tootsie, directed by Sydney Pollack, with ten; and Steven Spielberg's E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial with nine. (The other contenders for Best Picture: Sidney Lumet's The Verdict and Constantin Costa-Gavras' Missing...
...Actress will be Meryl Streep, nominated, as expected, for Sophie's Choice. Perhaps the strongest category is Best Actor, which this year promises a tight competition, free of Hollywood sentimentality and the tradition of awarding nominations to make up for past oversights. The nominees are Ben Kingsley in Gandhi, Paul Newman in The Verdict, Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year, Jack Lemmon in Missing and Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie...
...punishment for their violation of a law. But accepting punishment is not the same as docility in the face of an oppressive state. It does not preclude continued resistance of any unjust measures promulgated by that state. I would embrace punishment in the spirit of these words of Gandhi's: "We seek arrest because the so-called freedom is slavery." I would hope to show the way to true freedom, not the sort of freedom that seeks to enlist men in a war machine that can only exist by draining attention and money away from humane causes...
...mysteries of Indian politics is why the world's largest democracy has produced so few leaders of national quality. Mrs. Gandhi, the daughter of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, spent years grooming her ambitious younger son Sanjay as her ultimate successor. After Sanjay was killed in an air crash in 1980, she turned to her elder son Rajiv, 31, a former commercial airline pilot. So far, Rajiv has shown little flair for politics, but never mind that. He is Indira Gandhi's surviving son and thus the heir apparent to the House of Nehru, whose...